We are going to discuss the features, functionality and performance, as well as cooling system efficiency and acoustics of one very interesting graphics accelerator from Asus. On top of that, we will also run some tests using the new 3DMark suite.

According to recent news, the next generation of graphics processors from AMD and Nvidia is not going to arrive anytime soon. We won’t have new graphics cards until at least the fourth quarter of this year, so their manufacturers keep on extending their existing product line-ups in every price category, trying to make them even more attractive to end-users. Competition is tough here. It is not enough to put an original cooler and pre-overclock a card to make it a bestseller. In this review we’ll see how ASUS solves this problem with its GeForce GTX 660 DirectCU II OC. ASUS has as many as four original GeForce GTX 660s and ours is not the fastest version. But it is quite an exciting product all the same, as you will see shortly.

Technical Specifications

The detailed technical specifications of the new Asus card are summed up in the table below side by side with those of the reference Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 (the differences are marked with bold font):